Isaiah 10:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?”
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““Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 10:9 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 10:10His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- 2 Samuel 8:9When King Toi of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer,
- 2 Kings 16:9So the king of Assyria responded to him, marched up to Damascus, and captured it. He took its people to Kir as captives and put Rezin to death.
- 2 Kings 17:5Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.
- 2 Kings 17:24Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns.
- 2 Kings 18:9In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.
- 2 Kings 18:10And at the end of three years, the Assyrians captured it. So Samaria was captured in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 35:20After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt marched up to fight at Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to confront him.
- Isaiah 7:8For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.
- Isaiah 17:3The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the sovereignty from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the splendor of the Israelites,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 33:8The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.
- Isaiah 36:19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
- Isaiah 37:13Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”
- Jeremiah 46:2concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah:
- Jeremiah 49:23Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
- Amos 6:1Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
- Amos 6:2Cross over to Calneh and see; go from there to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?
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